Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States  an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world's most lucrative narcotics market and maximize profits.

If left unchecked, authorities say, the cartels' move into the American interior could render the syndicates harder than ever to dislodge and pave the way for them to expand into other criminal enterprises such as prostitution, kidnapping-and-extortion rackets and money laundering.

Cartel activity in the U.S. is certainly not new. Starting in the 1990s, the ruthless syndicates became the nation's No. 1 supplier of illegal drugs, using unaffiliated middlemen to smuggle cocaine, marijuana and heroin beyond the border or even to grow pot here.

But a wide-ranging Associated Press review of federal court cases and government drug-enforcement data, plus interviews with many top law enforcement officials, indicate the groups have begun deploying agents from their inner circles to the U.S. Cartel operatives are suspected of running drug-distribution networks in at least nine non-border states, often in middle-class suburbs in the Midwest, South and Northeast.

"It's probably the most serious threat the United States has faced from organized crime," said Jack Riley, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chicago office.

They have their tentacles inside of the U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. A former Border Patrol agent who was a spokesman for the Border Patrol was recently convicted in Federal Court in San Diego. That was not an isolated incident.

Obama’s crew has been arming them for the past 4 years. We’ve ceded a sizable chunk of Arizona to the cartels; warning signs of illegal traffiking were posted on public lands 60 miles from the border. We’ve had several ranchers, Border Patrol agents and a Sheriff shot by illegals. And I’m supposed to go “Boo hoo” for the idiots who won’t let us defend our borders? Sorry, Chicago, New York, DC. You asked for it, you got it.

Weve ceded a sizable chunk of Arizona to the cartels; warning signs of illegal trafficking were posted on public lands 60 miles from the border. Weve had several ranchers, Border Patrol agents and a Sheriff shot by illegals.

And a rancher sued into bankruptcy because he had had the audacity to hold a batch of illegals at gunpoint for the Border Patrol. That one was particularly galling.

Oh, my wife's Brother in Law. They beat him to death with baseball bats about 100 miles north of the border. "Our Territory."

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posted on 04/01/2013 4:07:02 PM PDT
by Cyber Liberty
(I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)

So now we know what ‘Fast & Furious’ was for.. Eric Holder armed the drug Cartels in Mexico for eventual cross border trips into the United States to reap havoc with their heavy weapons to cause ‘outrage against guns’ and to rally the American public into supporting gun bans.

I think it is related to child sex trafficking... his wife was a psychiatric nurse and he was going after cases related to that...

Were the deaths of DA McLelland and Hasse related to their ‘exposure’ of the ‘good ole boy’ network in Kaufman County, Texas and the child kidnapping ring being run out of Child Protective Services?

Remember what happened to the late Senator Nancy Schaefer of Georgia after exposing the CPS... Schaefer exposed the abuses of CPS and the international child sex slavery ring and was murdered along with her husband shortly afterwards.

Like we needed AP to tell us that our gun-running executive branch of govt already helped to arm. Ask the people of Arizona how it feels to get attacked by our own federal government crime bosses for trying to fight this organized foreign criminal invasion.

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posted on 04/02/2013 8:25:09 AM PDT
by Neoliberalnot
(Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)

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